The problem
Most companies that manage preventive maintenance have a schedule. The problem is not the schedule. The problem is what happens to it over time.
A maintenance visit is due. No one triggers the job manually. The week passes. The visit does not happen. The schedule moves on but the missed job stays missed — silently.
The schedule is in a spreadsheet or a calendar. It tells you what should happen. It does not tell you what has not happened. You find out what is overdue when a client asks or something breaks.
You can manage a maintenance schedule manually for ten assets. At fifty, it becomes a job in itself. At a hundred, something will always be getting missed.
The schedule lives in one tool. The job records live in another. No one has connected the two. You cannot quickly confirm whether the maintenance that was scheduled last quarter was actually completed.


